About Rotary International and Rotary Nailsea & Backwell.

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About Rotary in Nailsea and Backwell

We are a friendly club that was formed in May 1977 currently with 44
members and are always on the look out for potential members, both male
and female, who would like to put something back into our local
community and the national / international scene.

We also have avery active social programme of events and visits for members and their partners.

We meet on very nearly every Thursday evening at The Mizzymead
Recreation Centre in the middle of Nailsea. Mizzymead Centre is a members club, so
visitors please do need to contact us prior to the day of the meeting.
Return to the home page and scroll down to the foot of the page to see a streetmap of Nailsea. Mizzymead Recreation Centre is
at the end of Mizzymead Rise (off Hazelbury Road) and can easily be
identified by the entrance to the parking area. We meet at 6pm on the
4th Thursday in most months and at 7.30pm on most of the other Thursdays
in each month, gathering in the bar lounge beforehand.

If you would like to know more about
us and the work we do, with or without the view to possible membership,
please select the 'Contact Form' and select the "Club Secretary" from the contact list in the 'Subject' drop down menu box.

Below is a transcript of what Bill Gates said about Rotary when he
spoke about the work that remained to rid the world of Polio in his 2013
Richard Dimbleby Lecture.

END POLIO NOW

"Many organizations helped push the
eradication resolution through the World Health Assembly, but the one
you wouldn't expect is Rotary International. Rotary is a service
organization with 1.2 million members in almost every country in the
world, including more than 50,000 in Great Britain and Ireland.

Rotarians pledge to put service above
self, their motto, but they have no specific global health mandate. They
are not polio experts. They are regular people who go to work and spend
time with their families. For three decades, they have also spent time
advocating for polio eradication, raising money to support vaccination,
and giving kids polio drops all over the world.

Other partners include the Centers for
Disease Control, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization. We rely on
them to excel at their jobs. But that is not enough. We also need people
whose jobs have nothing to do with the health of poor people to
act. That is public will."